Wee Gillis
10 best books like Wee Gillis (Munro Leaf): A Very Special House, Journey Cake, Ho!, Andy and the Lion, They Were Strong and Good, April's Kittens, Fly High, Fly Low, My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book, Thy Friend, Obadiah, The Way to Start a Day
| Author | Ruth Krauss |
| ISBN | 0060286385 |
Continuing a two-year program to bring back twenty-two Maurice Sendak treasures long out of print, our second season of publication highlights one of the most successful author-illustrator pairings of all time. A pioneer of great children's literature, Ruth Krausspublished more than thirty books...
| Author | Ruth Sawyer |
| ISBN | 0140502750 |
This is such an interesting little story. I couldn’t find it in my library or ILL, but I did find someone reading it on youtube with the pictures. I didn’t watch it with the kids.
It looks like a family is living in a log home in the Appalachian Mountains of somewhere very poor. There clothes...
| Author | James Daugherty |
| ISBN | 0140502777 |
Like others of you, I have mixed feelings. I liked it as a boys' fantasy, written back in the day, and actually believe it has a bit of an *anti* hunting message. (I believe the same of another controversial Caldecott book, The Biggest Bear).
I liked the structure, the way a reader is pushed to turn...
They Were Strong and Good
| Author | Robert Lawson |
| ISBN | 0670699497 |
Awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1941, They Were Strong and Good is a classic book that follows the path of one family's journey through American history. Robert Lawson introduces us to his forefathers and with them we brave Caribbean storms, travel to the wharf markets of New York, and fight in the Civil...
| Author | Clare Turlay Newberry |
| ISBN | 0060244003 |
Since it was first published over fifty years ago, April's Kittens remains a classic cat story and is now made available again in this handsome new edition. Many children understand April's dilemma when her cat, Sheba, has three kittens. April is thrilled until her father insists that theirs is strickly...
| Author | Don Freeman |
| ISBN | 0142408174 |
Fly High, Fly Low, a Caldecott Honor book, tells the story of two San Francisco birds who hatch some eggs in a very unconventional place--the letter "B" in the sign on top of the Bay Hotel. But what happens when the sign is taken down? Told with Freeman's typical humor and simplicity, the book features breathtaking...
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
| Author | Becky Reyher |
| ISBN | 0688512518 |
"We do not love people because they are beautiful, but they seem beautiful to us because we love them."
This is one of the thoughts from this book. It is a wonderful thought taken one way and I can also see it as a way of saying, you're ugly, but because you are loved you're beautiful. I guess it has...
| Author | Muriel L. Feelings |
| ISBN | 0140546529 |
This alphabet book gives a nice introduction to Swahili and the predominant language of Africa. The first thing I noticed was that it seemed easy to pronounce the words as they sound the way they are spelled. It could be they are the easy words. The next thing I noticed was the Lion King named characters...
| Author | Brinton Turkle |
| ISBN | 0140503935 |
An interesting story about a seagull that befriends or follows around a little boy, Obadiah. Everyone notices and teases him and the boy doesn’t like it, but when the bird is not there, Obadiah misses him.
I didn’t think the artwork was especially Caldecott worthy. The story is simple and...
| Author | Byrd Baylor |
| ISBN | 0689710542 |
This poem is beautiful. This book spoke to me.
I love the simple lines of text with lovely rhymes and I especially love this artwork. It looks like liquid rivers of color rolling down the page in beautiful displays, but it’s making skies of sunrises. It is simple brilliant artwork. I absolutely...
Eva Padlyat lived in an Inuit village on Ungava Vat in northern Canada. In winter, when people wanted mussels to eat, they searched along the bottom of the seabed. Eva had often walked on the bottom, helping her mother, but today – for the very first time – she was to go down below the thick sea ice herself....
| Author | Rebecca Caudill |
| ISBN | 0805075240 |
" "Chee! Chee!" "
" Inside Jay's dark pocket Cricket began fiddling."
" The talking stopped. "
" Everybody listened."
A Caldecott Honor classic that celebrates friendship and
new experiences-back in print on its 40th anniversary
One afternoon late in August, before the...
Anatole is the happiest, most contented mouse in all of Paris. He is Vice-President in charge of Cheese Tasting at Duvall's cheese factory. He works in secret at night--the people at Duvall have no idea their mysterious taster is really a mouse! So M'sieu Duvall thinks nothing of bringing his pet cat...
| Author | Fritz Eichenberg |
| ISBN | 0808585169 |
A beginning rhyming alphabet book for young kids, but older kids can enjoy the zaniness of these rhymes. The artwork is detailed and interesting from the 50s. I think it’s very lovely. The rhyme is like the title on each page, short and to the point. There is a ‘Nag with a Bag’ and a ‘Pig with a Wig’,...
| Author | Margaret Hodges |
| ISBN | 0153075317 |
This book had the kids gripped. They weren’t sure what was going to happen, but they knew the old man had something serious to say. They could tell something dangerous was in the works. This was suspenseful for the children. The nephew kept asking what’s going to happen and the niece would tell him,...
| Author | Janice May Udry |
| ISBN | 0060284609 |
Magic. This book is a delight and stunning. It conveys that magic feeling of how right the world can be as a child on a lovely evening with friends and a feeling of freedom.
Maurice Sendak is once again the illustrator. He must have illustrated every other book out at the time. He was one busy bee....
| Author | Wanda Gág |
| ISBN | 0816644187 |
"Nothing at All" is the name of an orphaned puppy living with his two brothers until two children come to adopt them. Unfortunately, Nothing at All gets inadvertently left behind-not out of cruelty, but because he is invisible! He is horribly lonely until he meets a bird, a Jackdaw, who says that he knows...
| Author | Alvin Tresselt |
| ISBN | 0688093523 |
"Drip drop splash went the rain all day." The rain formed a puddle. . .and became a pond. . .and spilled over into a lake. . .and grew larger and larger until it joined with a river and travelled out to sea.
With this classic picture book, young readers can follow the course of a heavy rain as it drenches...
It’s a gentle story with a sweet song to sing.
This is like a poem told. It reminds me so much of little kids. They want so bad to love and play with animals they see and they go wildly chasing after them. The animals always run away from them. This book, a little girl asks animal after animal to play...
| Author | Taro Yashima |
| ISBN | 0140502408 |
I love Taro Yashima’s work. I need to know more about Taro; are they a boy or girl? How do they come up with these ideas. They are incredible. This is the most details I have seen Taro give in their work. It looks like they use crayons with regular materials to create the art.
This is about a girl who...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0064433609 |
No one writes like this anymore. I think I have said this before in my marathon Patrica MacLachlan picture books reading this week but, it is usually poor writing, stupid rhymes or just ridiculous themes. This is art!
Her books are great literature for kids. I saw a review on here that someone...
